This is so strange to me. I guess people enjoy being ripped off and getting less and less value for their money.

  • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been cycling through them a few months at a time. When it gets harder and harder to find something interesting on, say, Netflix, I cancel and sign up for, say, HBO, then a few months later Disney+, rinse and repeat.

    I refuse to pay for more than one at a time because I’m not watching more than one at a time. And when I go back to any of them after many months away, there will be new programmes in their catalogue.

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      9 months ago

      I used to do that but it’s also frustrating, because when something new comes out, it’s just random luck if I’m on the right streaming service to watch it. Otherwise I have to wait…

      Wasn’t this supposed to be as good or better than the video rental store, where they had everything in one place?

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        9 months ago

        Blockbuster had new releases and a handful of classics. One store probably had .01% of the volume of titles on Netflix. If they even had that many.

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          But now no one has all the new major releases, so in that regard it’s a worse experience.

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          9 months ago

          I also remember they had the shit knockoff movies next to the real ones to fool Grandma into getting you that “Deformers movie you like”.